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11-04-2004, 05:39 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Utah
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I have not read Beowulf yet, but from what I heard about it, I would definetly agree with you.
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11-04-2004, 07:16 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Between the fortune cookie and the post-its.
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I get to read Beowulf for English this year! yay!! yeah. It's only a very much shortened version, though. (looked through the book already..
 .. great thing about being homeschooled....) And yes, I agree most definitely.P.S. need that evil smiley. Oh, well, if the Barrow-Wight decrees it, we shall have it. But he has not decreed it.
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01-09-2005, 01:31 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Roaming the plains of Middle Earth
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you are correct in saying that he based a lot of things off Beowulf. i have not read it but i greatly anticipate it as i will read it next year. Another big part things is the Kalevala. i dont know if any of you have heard of it, but maybe you have. It is an ancient Finnish folktale that, in Tolkien's time, only one person new. This was also a big mythology that influenced him.
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